Tuesday, December 20, 2005

Windows: Sun Java Application Display Problems

Problem:Java applications under Windows 2000 would only display blank windows. Even the Sun Java Control Panel was just a blank box. No tabs, no text, no controls, nothing!

Solution:Updated video drivers

The Story:As you can see from the problem listed above, Java applications were giving me fits. Arachnophilia (which I use for text editing) was not working, other Java applications wouldn't work either. However, Azureus (Java bittorrent client) has been working just fine the whole time. Displaying everything properly, etc. Where did the problem lie? I didn't bother with Google this time around. First I verified I had the latest Sun Java JRE installed, next I went straight to java.com and found the root of the problem in no time--"The cause of this problem is an incompatibility between the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) and certain video cards."

1 comment:

This problem has surfaced again with Nvidia ver. 81.98 drivers released on Dec 21th 2005. I started getting blank screens and Azureus also started giving blank screens when I installed 81.98 drivers with Jre 1.5 Update 6.

The problem only occurs when you turn on the Anti-Aliasing in Nvidia settings.